I Declare War

I Declare War (2012)

Rules were made to be broken.

Summer war games between the neighborhood kids turns deadly serious when jealousy and betrayal enter the mix, in this alternately hilarious and horrifying black comedy that mixes equal parts Lord of the Flies and Roald Dahl.

Date of release
2012-04-15
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (95)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Action, Comedy, Drama
Director
Jason Lapeyre

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Toronto

I Declare War is a 2012 Canadian action comedy-drama film written and directed by Jason Lapeyre and co-directed by Robert Wilson. The film, about a group of friends who get together for a game of capture the flag that escalates into violence, was an Official Selection in the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and was given a limited release in U.S. theatres on August 30, 2013.

Production

Writer/director Jason Lapeyre wrote the script ten years earlier and based it on his childhood experiences of playing war with friends, saying "Almost everything that happens in this script is autobiographical or inspired by things that actually happened".

The script was picked up by producer Lewin Webb of Samaritan Entertainment and he forwarded it to his partner Robert Wilson, where it went through years of development and financial issues. Wilson was frustrated by the process the script was going through until he read through it and was reminded of what it was like to be the characters: "It was the experience I had growing up, the experience even Lewin had growing up, the experience Jason had gr…

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